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Senior: 11 & 12: Unit 1: Art as Lens

Objects (Still Life)

Baroque

Baroque 1600 - 1725

Vanitas Still Life Pieter Claesz 1625

Baroque art in Europe - an introduction

Impressionism

Impressionism - Concept and Styles

Chronology of Vincent Van Gogh's life and works

Post-Impressionism

Post impressionism timeline

Paul Cézanne - overview

Cubism

Cubism: How Picasso and Others Broke From Tradition to Transform Modern Art

Pablo Picasso: Cubism

Pop

Pop Art Summary

7 Colorful Masterpieces That Define the Pop Art Movement

Contemporary

Getting Started: An Introduction to Teaching with Contemporary Art

Jeff Koons Official Website

Ai Weiwei Official Website

Australian

Patricia Piccinni

Places (Landscape)

Dutch - Meindert Hobbema

Meindert Hobbema 1638 - 1709

Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638–1709)

English - John Constable

A Sketchbook by John Constable

John Constable: The Complete Works

J.M.W Turner

J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

Turner: The complete works

Chinese Traditional Landscape

National Museum of Asian Art

Chinese Landscape Painting - China Online Museum

Colonial Australian - John Glover

John Glover: Artist profile

Biography: John Glover

Impressionism - Monet, Russell

John Russell: Art Gallery NSW

Australian

John Olsen Biography

Life and Times: Brett Whiteley

Useful books

Art in Context by Jack A. Hobbs
Call Number: 701 HOB
ISBN: 0155034715
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
A Journey into Christian Art by Helen de Borchgrave
Call Number: 704.9 DE
ISBN: 074594261X
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Offering insights into the lives and times of over fifty artists, and the beliefs that inspired their work, this book, for those who want to know how to interpret religious art, contains more than 100 colour reproductions of some of the world's greatest paintings.
The Contemporary Art Book by Charlotte Bonham-Carter
ISBN: 9781847960054
Publication Date: 2011-09-06
This veritable Who s Who of contemporary art contains a generation-spanning roster of 200 of the world s most influential and talented artists, from acknowledged masters like Lucian Freud, Louise Bourgeois, and Jasper Johns to younger stars like Matthew Barney, Damien Hirst, and Tracey Emin. Insightful biographies, with special focus on key works, and cross-referencing to linked artists, themes, and movements, make this the essential insider s guide to the international art scene.

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People (Portraiture)

Renaissance

A Beginner's Guide to the Renaissance

The Renaissance – why it changed the world

National Gallery of Art: Giovanni Bellini

Impressionism

Edouard Manet: The Guggenheim Museum Collection

Edouard Manet Paintings and Biography

Expressionism

Expressionism overview

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938

Ernst Kirchner Prints

Cubism

10 things you should know about Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso: Biography, Cubism and Famous Paintings

Surrealism - Dali

Surrealism overview

Timeline of Surrealism

Salvador Dalí, 1904–1989

Artists by Movement: Surrealism

Pop

The Andy Warhol Museum

Contemporary

Lucian Freud Bio British, 1922–2011

Australian

Archibald Prize: Art Gallery NSW

The art that made me: Ben Quilty